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Active topics of interest include:
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== What is Natural Language Generation? ==
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Natural language ''generation'' (NLG) focuses on algorithms and models for producing texts in English or other natural languages. NLG systems generally produce summaries, explanations, descriptions, etc, of non-linguistic data from databases, knowledge bases, sensors, and so forth. Frequently co-occurring keywords include: text generation, large language models (LLMs), chatbots.
  
*Discourse models, content planning.
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Good sources to learn about NLG include:
*Syntactic realization: formalisms and models of grammars for sentence production.
 
*Architecture of generators.
 
*Lexical choice.
 
*Psychological modelling of discourse production.
 
*Pragmatic influences on lexical choice, syntax and content selection.
 
*Multilingual or multi-modal generation.
 
*Applications of generation technology (report generation, explanation for knowledge-based systems, automatic translation...).
 
*Learning methods.
 
*Evaluation of generation results.
 
  
Relevant aspects of the following areas relate to problems of natural language generation:
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* Only a little time?
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** Ehud Reiter. 2018. "[https://ehudreiter.com/2018/01/16/learn-about-nlg/ How do I Learn about NLG?]". Blogpost.
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** * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_generation Wikipedia article on NLG]
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* A bit more time?
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** Albert Gatt and Emiel Krahmer. 2018. "[https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/11173 Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation]". ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'', 61:65–170.
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* Time enough to read a book?
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** Ehud Reiter. 2025. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68582-8 ''Natural Language Generation'']. Springer. (Also available on [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14437 arXiv])
  
*Grammar theory
 
*Statistical methods
 
*Speech synthesis
 
*Psycholinguistics
 
*Neuroscience
 
*Philosophy
 
  
== Upcoming Events ==
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The official site for SIGGEN is [https://www.inlgmeeting.org]. You can also follow us on [https://bsky.app/profile/siggen.bsky.social Bluesky as @siggen.bsky.social] and [https://elk.zone/fediscience.org/@siggen_acl Mastodon as @siggen_acl@fediscience.org]. (Our legacy X/Twitter account receives updates a day or two later.)
  
INLG 2019 will be in Tokyo, probably at the end of Oct or beginning of Nov (just before [https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/ EMNLP]).  Follow [https://twitter.com/INLG2019 @INLG2019] on Twitter for up-to-date information and announcements.
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== NLG Data Sets and Other Resources ==
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[[Natural_Language_Generation_Portal|Natural Language Generation Resources]]
  
== Recent Events ==
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== Upcoming Events ==
  
[https://www.inlg2019.com/ INLG 2019]
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Next INLG conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 29 October to 2 November, 2025. CfP and conference website coming soon! (as of 2025-03-27)
  
Tokyo, Japan, 29 October - 1 November 2019
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In addition, SIGGEN runs a regular [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/webinar.html webinar series]. We're looking for talks on anything of interest to SIGGEN/NLG community, including research, tutorials, and commercial projects.  If you have an idea for a webinar, please send an email to <u>'''siggen-board (ta) googlegroups (dot) com'''</u>.
 
 
[https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/ INLG 2018]
 
 
 
Tilburg, Netherlands, 5-8 Novemeber 2018
 
 
 
[https://eventos.citius.usc.es/inlg2017/ INLG 2017]
 
 
 
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-7 September 2017
 
 
 
[http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/ INLG 2016]
 
 
 
Edinburgh, UK, 5-8 September 2016
 
  
 
== Mailing List ==
 
== Mailing List ==
 
=== Joining the mailing list: ===
 
=== Joining the mailing list: ===
  
:The SIGGEN mailing list is currently going through a transition.
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Interested in becoming a member of SIGGEN? Join the mailing list! That's all you have to do to become a member, get the latest updates, and see what other NLG researchers have to share :)
:To sign up, view preferences, change preferences, or unsubscribe, go to:  
 
  
 
::'''[http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN]'''
 
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:Please join the mailing list first (see above). Then you may use the email alias <u>'''siggen-list (ta) aclweb (dot) org'''</u> to post e-mails to the list.
 
:Please join the mailing list first (see above). Then you may use the email alias <u>'''siggen-list (ta) aclweb (dot) org'''</u> to post e-mails to the list.
  
== Board ==
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== Recent Events ==
The SIGGEN board is made up of the following people:
 
  
*[https://ehudreiter.com/ Ehud Reiter] ([mailto:e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk mail]) [https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/e.reiter/ Professor/Chair in Computer Science at University of Aberdeen] and also Chief Scientist of [https://www.arria.com Arria NLG]. ([mailto:siggen-chair(ta)aclweb(dot)org chair])
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You can see all previous events at [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/events.html Previous related events]
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
 
*[https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com Dimitra Gkatzia] ([mailto:d.gkatzia@napier.ac.uk mail]) [http://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools/school-of-computing/staff School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University], Edinburgh.
 
:elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
 
*[http://amandastent.com// Amanda Stent] ([mailto:amanda.stent@gmail.com mail]), Bloomberg LP ([mailto:siggen-treasurer(ta)aclweb(dot)org treasurer])
 
:elected in December 2016 for the period from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020
 
*[https://citius.usc.es/equipo/investigadores-postdoutorais/jose-maria-alonso-moral Jose M. Alonso] ([mailto:josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es]) [https://citius.usc.es/equipo/investigadores-postdoutorais/jose-maria-alonso-moral University of Santiago de Compostela], Spain (secretary)
 
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2022
 
*[https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/students/amanda-cercas-curry Amanda Curry] ([mailto:ac293@hw.ac.uk  mail]) [https://www.hw.ac.uk/ School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University] (student member)
 
:elected in December 2018 for the period from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2020
 
  
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== Board ==
  
To contact the entire board, please use the email alias: <u>'''siggen-board (ta) aclweb (dot) org'''</u>.
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You can see the current SIGGEN board members at [https://inlgmeeting.org/pages/information.html SIGGEN-BOARD].
  
== [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/siggen.html Workshop Proceedings ] ==
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== [https://inlgmeeting.org/  Website ] ==
  
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== [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/sigs/siggen/  Conference and workshop Proceedings ] ==
  
 
== [[SIGGEN: Archive|Archive]] ==
 
== [[SIGGEN: Archive|Archive]] ==
== [[SIGGEN: Newsletter Archive|Newsletter Archive]] ==
 
 
== [[SIGGEN: Constitution|Constitution]] ==
 
== [[SIGGEN: Constitution|Constitution]] ==
== [[SIGGEN: Who's Who in NLG|Who's Who in NLG]] ==
 
== [[SIGGEN: What's Where in NLG|What's Where in NLG]] ==
 
 
== Resources ==
 
[[Natural_Language_Generation_Portal|Natural Language Generation Portal]]
 

Latest revision as of 11:20, 27 March 2025


ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation

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Welcome to the home page of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation. SIGGEN [ˈsɪɡ.ʤɛn] is a special interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). It provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation.

What is Natural Language Generation?

Natural language generation (NLG) focuses on algorithms and models for producing texts in English or other natural languages. NLG systems generally produce summaries, explanations, descriptions, etc, of non-linguistic data from databases, knowledge bases, sensors, and so forth. Frequently co-occurring keywords include: text generation, large language models (LLMs), chatbots.

Good sources to learn about NLG include:


The official site for SIGGEN is [1]. You can also follow us on Bluesky as @siggen.bsky.social and Mastodon as @siggen_acl@fediscience.org. (Our legacy X/Twitter account receives updates a day or two later.)

NLG Data Sets and Other Resources

Natural Language Generation Resources

Upcoming Events

Next INLG conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 29 October to 2 November, 2025. CfP and conference website coming soon! (as of 2025-03-27)

In addition, SIGGEN runs a regular webinar series. We're looking for talks on anything of interest to SIGGEN/NLG community, including research, tutorials, and commercial projects. If you have an idea for a webinar, please send an email to siggen-board (ta) googlegroups (dot) com.

Mailing List

Joining the mailing list:

Interested in becoming a member of SIGGEN? Join the mailing list! That's all you have to do to become a member, get the latest updates, and see what other NLG researchers have to share :)

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SIGGEN
If there are any issues, e-mail: siggen-webmaster (ta) aclweb (dot) org.

Posting messages to the mailing list

Please join the mailing list first (see above). Then you may use the email alias siggen-list (ta) aclweb (dot) org to post e-mails to the list.

Recent Events

You can see all previous events at Previous related events

Board

You can see the current SIGGEN board members at SIGGEN-BOARD.

Website

Conference and workshop Proceedings

Archive

Constitution